Which Olympic sports can you do without?

[ohiosmith]

Me: anything synchronized. Swimming, diving, whatever!

[NYC_SKP]

1. That Ann Romney horse shit event.

Whatever the fuck it's called, it's not something available to many people who aren't super wealthy.

[ohiosmith]

3. Yea! That too. At least it's not synchronized!

[Ron Obvious]

12. It's the smiling...

It's those forced smiles that bug me about many of the synchronised sports... They give me the creeps.

[Ptah]

2. Horses jumping.

[ohiosmith]

4. Yep!

[djames59434]

5. +100. Same here.

[ohiosmith]

6. Welcome to the Lounge!

You'll like it here!

[HarveyDarkey]

7. All of them

[ohiosmith]

9. Even women's field hockey? Not women's field hockey!

[RebelOne]

11. Yes. I agree. My thought exactly. I was never a fan of the Olympics. n/t

[Populist_Prole]

15. Yeah, same here.

I have no ill will whatsoever toward the participants; it's that I just don't care about that kind of stuff...and the media hype is brutal to endure.

[LibDemAlways]

17. After witnessing poor sportsmanship exhibited by silver

medalists pissed that they didn't get gold and the insufferable jingoistic NBC coverage, I have to agree. It's become a bloated spectacle that I can easily live without.

[Ron Obvious]

8. Women's boxing...

Sorry, call me an old-fashioned, sexist pig, but I can't stand the thought of women beating lumps out of each other, while I have no trouble with men doing so.

It's visceral. I can't claim to be able to defend that statement rationally.

[petronius]

10. Tennis and cycling - it's the exact same people competing against each other

as on the pro circuit, what's the point? At least in team sports like basketball and soccer the teams get rearranged, but I'd be happy dropping anything that already has a near-global professional version, and in which the pros go to the Olympics...

[Archae]

13. Any sport where it's judged.

Too much opportunity for corruption, and this has occurred, many times.

Yes, that includes gymnastics.

[tjwmason]

20. I agree

Yet bizarrely gymnastics are one of the few things I find at all interesting, the incredible balance of strength and physical forces involves is poetry in motion...yet to base the awards on what are essentially subjective criteria seems massively out of line with more clear-cut cases (first person over the line, most goals scored...).

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. Most of the team stuff.

Prefer it when individual athletes are competing against one another.

[LynneSin]

27. I don't mind the team stuff but it was better when the pros weren't playing

I mean the USA Mens Basketball team is amazing but is it fair knowing that the USA has an overabundance of extremely talented players.

It was better when only amateurs could compete in the team sports.

[HappyMe]

28. Yeah. I always feel bad for the other

countries.

[Kennah]

16. Cat juggling

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Ribbon twirling and hoop spinning...

[Bucky]

19. Anything that doesn't involve training naked men to kill the enemy

I'm a traditionalist.

[Major Nikon]

21. I'm thinking this is more than a little on the creepy side

[HappyMe]

23. Robots!

Robots with horrible eye make-up!

[hifiguy]

29. That pic is disturbing on so many levels.

This is a sport??

[Kaleva]

31. LOL!

[Tabasco_Dave]

32. Did Tim Curry do their makup?

[HappyMe]

22. Ping pong, cycling,

men's basketball (kind of pointless for other countries), tennis.

[LeftishBrit]

24. Boxing

And to some degree those sports - football, tennis, etc. - that you get to watch at all sorts of other times. Even though the Olympics finally gave Andy Murray his big day, I still like the Olympics best when it involves events that you don't see every day.

I actually love watching the swimming even though I'm a total non-swimmer myself.

[Lucy Goosey]

25. Sailing, shooting, equestrian

Also ski jumping, bobsleigh, luge and skeleton.

[geardaddy]

26. Dressage and shooting.

[Kaleva]

30. Every one of them.

[IcyPeas]

33. fencing.

I watched a bit of it but I just thought it was weird and I guess not understanding the rules I didn't really "get it".

[applegrove]

34. ping pong

[davidpdx]

35. Well first of all I'm not a big fan of the Olympics

Now that I got that off my chest. I think the "sports" that should go should be Dressage, Badminton, Boxing (both men's and women's), BMX bike races (I'm sure there's plenty of others if I wanted to search a list). I'd like them to bring back baseball and softball.